Japanese women stuck with a boyfriend with a hobby they don’t like supply ways of inducing him to stop behaving like an immature child and instead do something productive like buying them shoes or something.

1. “Let’s do this together” – recommend a hobby you can do together
“If you draw his attention away from gaming, he may finally give it up.” Find something you can do together and his interest may wane. Keep suggesting things until you find something he likes.

2. “But apart from that hobby, you’re such a great man” – wound his manly pride
He might stop if you endanger his pride with an “in spite of your gaming…” element, as he wants to seem appealing. You can increase its effectiveness by explaining to him how great he is apart from his gaming habit.

3. “Games are all very well, but why don’t you spend some more time with me?” – fawn over him
Try to lure him away from the game by fawning over him like some teenager. However, if you mistime this in an important gaming moment you may only irritate him.

4. “I’m not interested in games at all!” – tell him straight up you’re not interested in his stupid hobby
“Play up the fact you are bored of him playing games.” If you express how bored you are and how little interest you have in his gaming, he might stop. It’s probably best if you offer a suggestion of something to do rather than just say you have no interest though.

5. “How long are you planning on playing this!?” – bluntly reject his gaming
“If he won’t listen, you have no choice but to reject him.” Show him a harsher attitude and he may rush to stop playing in case he displeases you. However, he may be annoyed, so only do this when he’s ignored your other warnings.

6. “If you won’t stop, I’ll do something you’ll not like either!” – make him feel the same way
“If he’s ignoring you playing a game, ignore him back!” If you do something nasty to him back, he might understand how annoying he is and stop. If you say it straight out it may make you look childish and immature, so try to make it look like a joke.

7. “My friends were saying how sick they are of their gamer boyfriends!” – borrow someone else’s words
“This will work on a man who is sensitive to what women think of him.” Make your boyfriend think general opinion is against him and he may stop. It’ll work even better if you can drop the name of one of his friend’s girlfriends.

8. “If you won’t spend time with me it makes me feel lonely. Shall I just go home?” Complain how unhappy you are
“If he won’t listen to you, all you can resort to is acting.” Play up your sadness and threaten to leave, and he may suddenly drop his game and come to you. Be careful or you’ll end up looking like a “selfish girlfriend” though.

9. “Are you going to play those things even when you’re 50?” – evoke images of his future
“Make him think of what it’ll be like if he keeps playing them.”
Question whether his hobby is something it would be appropriate for him to do for the rest of his life – he might stop. When he stops you can suggest doing something you like.

#10. Tell him that playing video games causes phimosis (search phimosis), and not the false kind. When he calls your bluff, kick him in his tiny asian testicles. In fact, kick as hard as you want. If what I have learned from these posts is true, he wasn't planning on having kids anyway (see herbivorous men). On the contrary his next step is probably to jump in front of a train or off a cliff (see suicide rate in japan) because of all your nagging.

While I wouldn't spend all my time gaming and of course would spend some time with a girlfriend, if she were to complain about it all the time or even told me to stop completely, I would bluntly tell her she chose the wrong guy. A girlfriend not being able to accept her boyfriend as he is is not worthy of that title and of course vice versa.

You sound sooo desperate. Why the hell would you give up something you enjoy just because some ho has a problem with it? There are plenty of fish in the sea. No relationship is worth giving up your freedom, believe me.

Me and my boyfriend never had problems with this. We both play everything that we can get our hands on, except he ist more of a pc-gamer (though I play PC too for RPG's or shooters like cod)while i own all the consoles in our household and usually play everything on console that is multiplatform (again: not COD, it was not meant to be on consoles :P)
BTW: Beating a boss in co-op play with the one you love is awesome ^^ Oh, and we're getting married in July, a dream come true ^^

They may be generic now, but these things will be rare 70 years into the future and they'll either appreciate it like I do or sell it to future otakus to make some cash. Either way, I have something of value to put in my will, lol.

But it sure would be nice to have all the 1000+ poks in your hands. Eroge and H posters are meant to make part of the "anti-ishihara" commotion. xD

back to the GF stuff. What stupid listing =o... if you are a gamer and have a stupid girl who doesn't like games and let yourself stop gamming from those metods, shame on you. Choose a girl who like games, or don't date'em.

[then order her to fanservice as game and then anime chars for you, ero-cosplay \o/]

Agreed. All of these seems pretty childish, if it's really that big of a problem (which it shouldn't be unless it consumes his entire life, in which case how does he have a girlfriend in the first place?) then just talk about why it bothers you together.

From other studies I've seen the only Japanese likely to be in a relationship would be elementary and middle schoolers, when the girls are still young enough to not know the value of a dollar. So maybe this is fitting.

ok, honestly, I went through that list going "Then why are we a couple?" and "If you dislike gaming so much, then what the hell do we have in common?". Obviously, they expect 1) For the person being convinced to not be an avid gamer. 2) that the guy to fawn over the girl and be obedient. 3) That the girl can honestly say that she has no chance what so ever of ever liking any game ever.

Oh i agree, i had a good argument about it, but he had some good points as well along the lines of F.E.A.R., Doom, etc. Made me realize there were just as many good horror FPSs as there are 3rd Person Horror games.

I'm perfectly fine for fearing for other characters standing in for me though. Unique on screen characters gives it a special quality to a survival horror IMO.

Deadly Premonition, Dead Space, Dead Rising, Silent Hill and Resident Evil to name a few. Some PC FPS horror do play it very well though. I'm glad Dead Space actually bridges the line between FPS style of shooter and 3rd person horror.

Yeah, but there's something to be said to actually being able to see Isaac and not some floating-hand/gun. If we couldn't see Isaac and his suited creepiness, it would have been worse off for it. Or worse yet, we may have had to get pulled into 3rd person perspective when Isaac gets attacked... or not even see death animations of Isaac at all. FPS horror had a good run. I think 3rd person needs a time to shine.

Dunno man. I was pretty fucking scared for Isaac in both games. If I'm responsible for a character, either in third person over the shoulder or bird's eye view/isometric a.l.a. RTS, I generally REALLY don't like seeing them get chased down and ripped apart like a sack of meat, even if I don't imagine myself as them. Hopefully I'm not the out-lier, but people keep talking about shit like desensitization, I guess I might be.

Ah, FEAR... the game that made me stop working until late night in my office. Thanks a lot for making office buildings and furniture with dim lighting look creepy, fucking jerks...!

However, EA intended Dead Space to be a contender for the survival horror genre. Pitting it as an FPS would make it become compared to other FPSes, and those things come out as often in the West as eroges do in Japan! (Hint: more than you can buy)

actually your dad hobby isn't something that rare. I have see lot's of people that work in computer and that after they retire from work they start to play computer games (well...my dad started to play age of empires 2 IN the work, lol)

it's the girl they are bored of, so they turn to games like love plus.
it's the girl that is not interesting, depending on game he's playing, she probably scores lower than the game's review score.
if not previous two, well, we just need some time off. XD

I won't even go into how gaming in and of itself has transcended being 'a waste of time,' but they are doing the exact wrong things to get a guy to do ANYTHING. That entire list is a litany of 'what not to do.'

Gaming offers many things girlfriends do not, but one key one is 'change.' A girlfriend changing is often a random occurrence and not always beneficial. A game has the benefit of expanding one's imagination, but once you are bored of it, you may change it to any number of others and shift to a completely different mindset and imaginary realm and feel a complete feeling of newness.

I'm sure it's possible for a girlfriend to offer similar possibilities in the real world, but honestly, it's much easier to just find a girl who enjoys the same vacations into the fantasy realms as you do. And considering how hard it can be to find those, and still saying it's easier, that says a lot.